Topic: smart-city-innovation

The City of Lublin and bee smart city have signed a partnership agreement at Smart Ecosystems conference in Gliwice, Poland, on May 29. The goal of the partnership is to advance and to promote Lublin’s smart city strategy and to share expertise, lessons learned and solutions.

bee smart city and Smart Cities New York are continuing their strategic partnership to help cities and municipalities develop and become more prosperous and livable. Smart Cities New York is a global event based on the core principle that cities are Powered by People.

bee smart city joins forces with RuhrSummit, the biggest startup conference in the Ruhr Valley and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). One key topic of this years’ RuhrSummit and its sub-event International Summit is ‘Smart Urban Services / Smart City’. bee smart city will host the corresponding Deep Dive for smart city startups.

“The partnership with RuhrSummit in our home region and state is a great honor for us at bee smart city. The smart city market is a global growth market that offers a lot of business opportunities for startups that help to increase efficiency, livability and prosperity in cities and municipalities. Future-proofing the places we live and work in is a necessity that we all benefit from – as citizens, employees, entrepreneurs or government representatives. Therefore, we help smart city startups and solution providers to connect with potential corporate and government clients, to identify new partners, and to increase their global visibility through our global smart city network and community.”, state Dr. Alexander Gelsin, Bart Gorynski, and Thomas Müller, Founders and Managing Partners at bee smart city.

bee smart city partners with Germany’s largest startup conference and innovation summit to specifically support smart city startups. Smart City, IoT, and Future Mobility are some of the main topics of StartupCon, taking place at Lanxess Arena in Cologne on September 18, 2018. A special "Smart Cities of the Future" panel, covers topics like city planning, infrastructure, and geo-intelligence.

In recent years, new technologies and business models for the public sector have led to the formation of a huge number of smart city startups – often also termed govtech and civictech startups – that are developing or already offer outstanding solutions for urban challenges and problems, or to seize urban development opportunities. The smart cities market is one of the fastest growing markets worldwide, offering ample business opportunities for new startups.